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A reminder that Steve Jobs is going to be taking the stage in Cupertino tomorrow for their yearly music event. VGTribune won’t be there, but we’ll do our best to keep you up to date via Twitter.

Potential announcements may include:

- New line of iPods, including the iPod Touch and the drastically revamped iPod Nano
- The release of iOS 4.1 along with Game Center (Apple’s take on an X-Box Live-esque social network)
- Talk of iOS 4 coming to the iPad
- Changes to iTunes, including potential streaming or social additions, as well as $0.99 TV show rentals.
- iTV, a rebranding and revamping of the Apple TV, now running on iOS with access to the App Store.

In order to ease the back-to-school suffering millions of students across the US are experiencing this week, Sega has slashed the prices of 10 iPhone and iPad games by up to 65%. Not in school or live in another country? No problem! Sega’s got you covered as well because this sale is available across each and every country’s App Store.

Hit the jump to see the full list of Sega sales!

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It looks like Summer hasn’t only pushed Capcom to join the deal bonanza that is the iTunes App Store during the summer. You can get your hands on Phoenix Wright for $2.99,Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, Dark Void Zero and Mega Man 2 for just 99 cents, or Street Fighter IV for $6.99.

Phoenix Wright is already loaded on my iPad and it’s feeling great! Go take advantage of the sale while you can!

The Alley of the Dolls is the latest installment in the franchise. The game starts in a kind of in media res to where Sam and Max are hiding in Stinky’s diner from a horde of Sam clones. This game is fairly interesting. It takes a kind of zombie apocalyptic setting combined with a mystery of what all is going down. The game focuses more on story than puzzle I feel and is once again not as innovative and new, but the story is really what pushes the game.
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Nathan Gray, developer of the iPhone crossword game HexaLex which we reviewed here on VG Tribune a few days ago, took some time to answer a few of our questions. Hit the jump to find out his thought on 3D in gaming, the AppStore as a “curated” platform, being a one man band of game development and more!

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HexaLex

Price: $2.99

Developer: Nathan Gray

Platform: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

Words With Friends and the official Scrabble game for iPhone and iPad have taken word game fans by storm, but a new contender, HexaLex, has thrown it’s hat into the ring. Scrabble-like games are a dime a dozen on the AppStore, but does HexaLex bring enough to the table to justify a purchase? We’ve got at least seven reasons. Hit the jump to find out!

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Puzzle Agent is the newest game by Telltale, known for being the current leaders in the point and click adventure genre, as you can surmise, Puzzle Agent is no different. Puzzle Agent is a game that basically follows the Professor Layton style of gameplay. Play through puzzles to get further in the story. The only difference is, is that Puzzle Agent is much shorter.

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When asked if Nintendo would consider making games for other mobile platforms such as the iPhone, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata answered unfavorably to the idea.

We think Nintendo is a company whose value is recognized by the way that we combine great software experiences with particular hardware capabilities that only we can offer. Therefore, my feeling is that offering our IP on other devices would have an adverse impact on the overall value of our company and at the same time I think that it’s not something that would add value to Nintendo.

That sounds very similar to Apple’s strategy with Mac OS. That’s an uncannily similar symmetry.

Checker Kingdoms

Price: $1.99 & Checker Kingdoms Free

Developer: Centurion Games

Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Checkers is the impatient man’s chess. And being an impatient man, I took to Checker Kingdoms for iPhone like a fish to water. Checkers isn’t known for its depth, but does Checker Kingdoms provide enough bang for your iPhone gaming buck? Find out after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »